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listened to a book on plains indian mythology n folklore n in lakota lore if you die n don't have a wrist tattoo you don't get to heaven. your ghost gets pushed off your cloud n have to wander the land aimlessly. gatekeeping the afterlife from smoothskins is insanely based
The mythology for chugs has changed. If they don’t die with a bottle of firewater in their grubby paws, their spirits are cursed to forever walk a Trail of Tears without ever getting a sip of hooch. Terrifying!
Oh great, you’re telling me that the Negroes have upped their game to include scalping? But isn’t that cultural appropriation?
Countzer0
Ediot
had to DNF Mrs Shim is a Killer. It was very promising to start off, with our main POV character doing a great job of settling the atmosphere but I did not give a single fuck about any of the other characters except maybe Mrs Lee, and the prose also kinda derailed. It's a big shame, because it had such a huge amount of promise. My working memory is pretty good when reading, but this book was so disorienting that I still can't remember half of the characters but mrs shim herself. Great concept, bad execution.
reading the latest ty gagne "people died trying to hike the white mountains in a blizzard again" book
bout halfway through. this time it took place in 1982, meaning there's no personal tracking devices n lower quality walkie talkies so there's a missed connection thing going on. the 2 hikers missed their turn off in a white out n get down below tree line n are lost n frostbitten with no gear but the rescue crew are searching the wrong area. one of the rescuers is gonna get taken out by an avalanche cuz these two chucklefucks wanted to leave their gear n hoof it up mt washington knowing they were gonna get hit by a blizzard.
bout halfway through. this time it took place in 1982, meaning there's no personal tracking devices n lower quality walkie talkies so there's a missed connection thing going on. the 2 hikers missed their turn off in a white out n get down below tree line n are lost n frostbitten with no gear but the rescue crew are searching the wrong area. one of the rescuers is gonna get taken out by an avalanche cuz these two chucklefucks wanted to leave their gear n hoof it up mt washington knowing they were gonna get hit by a blizzard.
RancidWraith
Ediot
Some of you might remember me posting this book a while back. I finally finished it because I’m a slow reader.
I can finally start reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead now. It’s even got pictures of the original hieroglyphs to accompany the translations. I also didn’t mention that I got a collection of the Brother Grimm's fairy tails at the same time, which I’ll probably read afterwards.
I can finally start reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead now. It’s even got pictures of the original hieroglyphs to accompany the translations. I also didn’t mention that I got a collection of the Brother Grimm's fairy tails at the same time, which I’ll probably read afterwards.
listening to a collection of native myths n legends n there's a tale about the origin of vision quests where an old comanche woman and her granddaughter leave to go find medicine for the tribe and finds peyote and slices a bit off and the juice inside is "the water of life"
on the last chapter of the mind and the brain by dr schwarz n sharon begley n it's all about the history of neuroplasticity, how it wasn't accepted at first by filthy materialists, how people scientifically proved it was real in a variety of ways, n that basically you can train your brain to make it behave how you want it to
interesting to hear how in ocd people there's a hyperactive lesion of the brain on scans but by working to actively do anything other than "the ritual" (be it handwashing, etc) you can slowly re-wire the brain over time to not engage n then that area pops up looking normal
goes into the silver springs monkeys and the birth of peta (dude was deafferentating the macaques to simulate stroke n then forcing them to use the numb limb). turns out ppl even 17+ years after a stroke can be trained to re-use a limb
same with ppl who have dyslexia, tourette's n even major depressive episodes.
having a bad day/month/year? no the fuck you aren't if you insist you aren't hard enough. fake it til you make it works
reality is (somewhat) programmable
interesting to hear how in ocd people there's a hyperactive lesion of the brain on scans but by working to actively do anything other than "the ritual" (be it handwashing, etc) you can slowly re-wire the brain over time to not engage n then that area pops up looking normal
goes into the silver springs monkeys and the birth of peta (dude was deafferentating the macaques to simulate stroke n then forcing them to use the numb limb). turns out ppl even 17+ years after a stroke can be trained to re-use a limb
same with ppl who have dyslexia, tourette's n even major depressive episodes.
having a bad day/month/year? no the fuck you aren't if you insist you aren't hard enough. fake it til you make it works
reality is (somewhat) programmable
Countzer0
Ediot
Currently going through the first Drizzt book, Homeland. It's a series of DnD novels set in Icewind Dale of Forgotten Realms and I'm loving it so far; I am going through the audio book, and the narrator is FANTASTIC. I've already gone through a third of it in a single day, the entire thing is about 11 hours long. I will be going through both Forgotten Realms novels and Dark Sun novels!
I smell a heaping helping of quackery
it's true tho. it's called "will"
you have the ability to use this will to restrain yourself from your innate urge to be a cunt, but you don't
Oh we know about will, effort, discipline, and the decision to restrain oneself from acting on impulsive thoughts. These are all things that brownoids (and especially negroes) have great difficulty managing…which is why they come from shl*tholes and create shl*tholes wherever they gather.
Wrong and you’re…you’re…you’re a Polack!
WRONG and how DARE you post such a scurrilous falsehood!!
